5 years after Facebook’s $22 Billion Acquisition Of WhatsApp
The controversy over Mark Zuckerberg’s integration of WhatsApp into Facebook just won’t die. In 2014, when Facebook was finalizing its $22 billion acquisition of the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp, it needed to get approval from EU antitrust regulators. To prep for the meeting with about a dozen representatives from the European Competition Commission, Acton said he was instructed by Facebook to tell EU regulators that there were no plans to merge Facebook’s and WhatsApp’s